chicken breast

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. a congenital or acquired malformation of the chest in which there is abnormal projection of the sternum and the sternal region, often associated with rickets.

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chicken breast British  

noun

1. pathol another name for pigeon breast

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Other Word Forms

• chicken-breastedness
  noun
• chicken-breasted
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of chicken breast

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

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chicken breast

Chicken cutlet starts with either a boneless chicken thigh or a boneless chicken breast that’s covered with cling wrap and pounded to even thickness.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026

Four uncooked ounces of frozen Tyson chicken breast adds about $1.10.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

It’s a grilled chicken breast, and I get it with a double side of steamed broccoli instead of rice.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025

In the experiments the researchers cooked chicken breast using five different methods: pan frying, stir-frying, deep-fat frying, boiling and air-frying, in a well-controlled research kitchen.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024

The only problem I ran into—which I thought was going to ruin everything—was that every single person wanted a chicken breast.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds